Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
 4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 455.0 Painting the past
COOS BAY Cargo ships may dock less frequently in Coos Bay these days, but a local artist is making sure their presence remains unfaded. Landscape designer Mike Vaughan can t resuscitate the timber industry or entice an industrial developer to town....
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 249.0 Myrtle Point mill expands, hires
MYRTLE POINT A local alder mill is growing despite a recession that is hammering the lumber industry. W L Lumber, formerly known as W L Contractors, has added a lumber-drying kiln and a planer to its existing alder mill and chipping facility. The ...
5.5K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Cheers & Jeers
Get along, little kitties Cheers to Coos Bay s police chief, temporarily sporting a new title. He s Acting City Manager Rodger Craddock, but interim cat herder might be a more accurate job description. Best of luck to him. A welcome break Cheers fo...
2.0K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 193.0 James A. Phillips
A memorial service will be held for Friday Phillips, 96, of Langlois, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Langlois Community Church. A graveside service for family will precede the memorial. James A. "Friday" Phillips was born Aug. 11, 1913, in Tho...
3.9K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 193.0 City should support timber industry
North Bend accepted bids for their new boardwalk concrete! They expected the support of Weyerhaeuser over the years and wrote off Roseburg Lumber s chip facility, but in general supported the timber community that was in the area. But like our stat...
0.8K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 193.0 CB ups pay for employees
The city of Coos Bay gave all its employees a 5 percent raise this year. Other public agencies and businesses haven t been so fortunate. While some cities are hiking pay, schools have been eliminating teachers and other positions. Unemployment has to...
4.2K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 193.0 CFPA eases fire rules
Recent cool temperatures and brief rainfall have prompted the Coos Forest Protective Association to lower fire prevention measures on timber operations in some areas. Industrial Fire Precaution Level 2 is in effect on all lands protected by CFPA with...
1.0K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 249.0 U.S. court halts new timber roads
WASHINGTON A federal appeals court Wednesday blocked road construction in at least 40 million acres of pristine national forests. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates most of a 2001 rule put in place b...
5.7K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 376.0 Slow timber harvest means less money for schools fund
It's business as usual for the Department of State Lands as the department continues to sell timber. But the rough economy will mean less money for local schools. The money from these timber harvests goes into the Common School Fund, which pipes mone...
2.0K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 404.0 Bend: 'poverty with a view'
BEND This city in Oregon's scenic high desert once had one of the nation's hottest economies. Resort developers, bankers, construction workers and luxury car dealers rushed for a piece of the action. Now some locals call Bend poverty with a view....
7.2K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 306.0 White House scraps Bush logging plan
GRANTS PASS The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that ...
4.2K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 542.0 Court tosses challenge to seabird protection
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has dismissed the timber industry s lawsuit challenging threatened species protection for the marbled murrelet, a seabird that nests in old growth trees. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colum...
0.9K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 193.0 CB native considers a run for governor
He may not have declared his candidacy, but Coos Bay native Brian Clem is testing the waters for a run at the governor s office. The state representative, a Democrat who lives in Salem, was in Portland on Wednesday, where he stopped to speak with a m...
3.0K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 193.0 Sanctimony in a treehouse
If you want to look down on other people, climbing a tree is a good start. You just perch yourself in a makeshift crow s nest and smugly survey the earthbound working stiffs whose livelihoods you re disrupting. Out in the Elliott State Forest, a band...
2.1K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 249.0 Study: Owl habitat doesn't fuel fire threat
GRANTS PASS A new study challenges a basic justification on the threat of wildfires that the Bush administration used to increase logging in old growth forests that are home to the northern spotted owl. The study, appearing in the journal Conservat...
2.8K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 193.0 Group wants third national monument in Siskiyous
MEDFORD (AP) - Conservationists are proposing a third national monument in southwestern Oregon to protect rare native plants and wildlife corridors. The proposed Siskiyou Crest National Monument would be made up of 600,000 acres of federal land strad...
2.1K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 404.0 Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace
TAKILMA - On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chainsaws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later. Fresh...
8.6K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 443.0 Biomass bounty
COOS BAY - The only evidence most people see of slash - the tops and limbs of trees left over after logging - are pillars of smoke rising off logging landings in the fall. Some local timber industry folks see something more valuable going up in smoke...
6.4K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 376.0 New Forest Service Chief vows quick spending
WASHINGTON - New Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell says he will move quickly to ensure that his agency spends its $1.15 billion share of federal economic stimulus funding. The Forest Service has spent $643 million of its stimulus mon...
2.9K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 249.0 | 
